February 20, 2008

A panel discussion, “The Remembering Black/Black Remembering: Hope, Faith and Power,” will be presented from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, as part of African Peoples’ History Month at California State University, Fresno.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be in the University Center, room 202 (5240 N. Jackson Ave.).

It is sponsored by the Oral History Project of African Americans in Fresno and the Central Valley and Fresno State’s Africana and American Indian Studies Program.

The Oral History Project recently was launched to recreate a history that is based on black memories and remembrances of the black experience in Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley, said Dr. Malik Simba, the project coordinator and a professor in Fresno State’s Africana and American Indian Studies Program.

The project selects individuals to be interviewed and recorded on video tape by Simba and students majoring in Africana Studies. “Eventually, all interviews will be placed in an archival based repository,” Simba said.

For more information, contact Simba at 559.278.2832.